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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political Weapon." For the most part, President Johnson was notable by his absence from the festival. Toward sunset he appeared to make a brief speech. Said he: "Your art is not a political weapon; yet much of what you do is profoundly political. For you seek out the common pleasures and visions, the terrors and cruelties of man's day on this planet, and I would hope you would help dissolve the barriers of hatred and ignorance, which are the source of so much of our pain and danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Festival of the Arts | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

From a vantage point with a view atop suburban Pacific Palisades, Donohue's $100,000 Spanish-style house had picked itself up and headed toward Sunset Boulevard, 300 ft. down. It was a total loss. Also carried away in the hillside slide were a neighbor's $100,000 clifftop mansion, a psychiatrist's $75,000 eyrie, and about half of a $1,000,000, three-year-old apartment complex below them. One of the few residents who refused to evacuate the area was Mrs. Clara Bartlett-she lost only the patio of her $150,000 home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Don't Water the Daisies! | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...dead run. Swiftly the classic Zulu charge overwhelmed the garrison. The two "horns" raced out to either flank; their mission was to lock in the enemy flesh. The "loins" encircled the rear. The "chest," or main body, rolled like a tidal wave over the British line. By sunset, it was all over. The victorious impi vanished, leaving more than 2,000 of their own dead. But at Isandhlwana, not a single defender remained. The only survivors were the 55 Europeans and some 400 Kaffirs who had been scattered by the Zulu force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Courage & Assegais | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...facts and sets them in a good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of the Turks | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Returns from such deals can be sizable. Sunset Petroleum, which is building huge new towns near Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, got 73% of its $27.7 million revenue from realty last year. Land development and brokerage accounted for 14% of its $25 million gross for the venerable West Coast lumber firm of Pope & Talbot. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. realized 10% of its net income from such realty operations as an industrial park, 515 acres for homes, a hotel and a shopping center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Lure of the Land | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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